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Oh, So Nov. 15 Is After the Election? Who Knew? Bush Administration Delays Roadless Ruling		09 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Oh, So Nov. 15 Is After the Election? Who Knew? Bush Administration Delays Roadless Ruling The Bush administration announced yesterday that it will delay a final decision on whether to repeal the enormously popular Clinton-era Roadless Rule in order to gather more public input -- two more months of public input, as it happens. Some enviros (oh, the cynicism!) noted that the delay would put the final decisi ...
Topics: elections, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

True Colors, Shining Through Schwarzenegger at an environmental crossroads	Amanda Griscom	09 Sep 2004	Muckraker
Arnold Schwarzenegger's exuberant speech last Tuesday at the Republican National Convention suggested that the Governator may be less the moderate Republican than advertised. Hailed by some during the convention as the Obama of the right, the California governor came across as a devout, rock-ribbed Bush lover. Just days after Schwarzenegger's speech, more evidence emerged to indicate that thi ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, business, California, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

My Interview With Andre Grist chats with Andre Heinz, environmental activist and stepson of John Kerry	Amanda Griscom	07 Sep 2004	Main Dish
Some may cry nepotism when they see Andre Heinz, the middle son of Teresa Heinz Kerry, take to the podium as one of the leading spokespeople on the environment for John Kerry's presidential campaign, but his ascent is hardly without merit. True, he has deliberately steered clear of a career inside the Beltway, so in some senses he is new to the political scene. But ...
Topics: Bill McDonough, elections, green living, interview, politics (all these topics)

Too Many Cooks Oil the Broth ChevronTexaco Heavily Influenced California Restructuring		03 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Too Many Cooks Oil the Broth ChevronTexaco Heavily Influenced California Restructuring California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's (R) recently announced plan to comprehensively reorganize state government brought grumbles from some enviros, who were piqued by the proposed consolidation of various boards and commissions from which many of the state's groundbreaking environmental initiatives ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, business, California, energy, oil, politics (all these topics)

Omission Accomplished Environment Invisible at GOP Convention		03 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Omission Accomplished Environment Invisible at GOP Convention Attendees at the Republican National Convention, which wrapped up last night, would have been hard-pressed to discern the party's positions on environmental issues. Other than a video touting the Bush administration's efforts to avert wildfires in national forests (by, um, logging), green themes were markedly absent from the gathering. "I have not heard ...
Topics: elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

No Trespassing Bush admin move may keep Kerry and other candidates from stumping on federal property	Amanda Griscom	02 Sep 2004	Muckraker
John Kerry at the Grand Canyon. Photo: Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc. from Sharon Farmer. The Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, NASA headquarters, and the Washington Monument are among the many federal properties that may be off-limits to presidential and congressional candidates for campaign photo ops this election season, thanks to a guidance recently released by the Bu ...
Topics: elections, Muckraker, national parks, politics (all these topics)

24 Hour Party People Energy Industry Funnels Millions into Unregulated Convention Parties		02 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
24 Hour Party People Energy Industry Funnels Millions into Unregulated Convention Parties The energy industry is treating Republicans to a gay old time in New York City this week, hosting a plethora of parties for favored politicians and others attending the GOP convention: a ball, a concert, a trap shoot, a honky-tonk salute, even a soiree with scantily clad acrobats swinging fro ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

Malign Neglect Republican Leaders at Odds Over Nuclear Worker Compensation Program		01 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Malign Neglect Republican Leaders at Odds Over Nuclear Worker Compensation Program The Bush administration is clashing with Republicans in Congress over a compensation program for workers at nuclear facilities sickened by exposure to radiation, asbestos, and other toxic substances. As of July, the Energy Department had paid out only $700,000 of the $95 million it has received since the program was created, ...
Topics: nuclear power, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

By Any Greens Necessary Enviro Justice Center Works to Link Green and Civil-Rights Movements		30 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
By Any Greens Necessary Enviro Justice Center Works to Link Green and Civil-Rights Movements Environmental degradation often falls hardest on poor and minority communities, but these communities can have difficulty organizing to fight for environmental justice, and they've received too little help from a mainstream environmental movement perceived as a white, middle- and upper-class affair. Sociology profess ...
Topics: environmental justice, politics, United States (all these topics)

Sultans of Swing Environmental Issues May Matter After All, Via Swing States		30 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Sultans of Swing Environmental Issues May Matter After All, Via Swing States Conventional wisdom has it that environmental issues are low priorities for most voters, and thus for most presidential campaigns. However, this year's squeaker of a presidential election will be decided by voters in a small handful of swing states -- and in many of those states, top local issues are environmental. In Nevada, Kerry trumpets hi ...
Topics: elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

Smears of a Clown Auto Industry-Backed PR Firm Claims California Emissions Regs Will Kill		27 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Smears of a Clown Auto Industry-Backed PR Firm Claims California Emissions Regs Will Kill A new ad campaign by the Sport Utility Vehicle Owners of America uses "Squeezy the Clown" to warn that proposed carbon-dioxide emissions regulations in California would force automakers to (gasp!) build smaller cars, which in turn will lead to increased traffic fatalities. (You see, they argue, the regs would force people ...
Topics: California, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Good Times, Good Times Federal Report on Global Warming Produces Beltway Drama		27 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Good Times, Good Times Federal Report on Global Warming Produces Beltway Drama When The New York Times reported yesterday on a new Bush administration report to Congress which acknowledged the human causes of global warming, characterizing it as an abrupt shift in policy, some Beltway wags speculated that the newspaper was trying to box the administration in and embarrass it. Today brought evidence in support of such spec ...
Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics)

Classified Adds As Feds Classify More Info, Environment Could Be Affected		27 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Classified Adds As Feds Classify More Info, Environment Could Be Affected Since 9/11, the Bush administration has upped secrecy at a growing number of agencies, all in the name of fighting terrorism. Much of the information newly deemed sensitive has direct implications for the environment and public health. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will no longer make safety scorecards for nuclear facilities publi ...
Topics: environmental justice, politics, United States (all these topics)

Methinks They Doth Not Protest at All Well-Known Green Groups Opt Out of GOP Convention Protests		26 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
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Topics: politics (all these topics)

Methinks They Doth Not Protest at All Mainstream green groups opt out of GOP convention protests	Amanda Griscom	26 Aug 2004	Muckraker
Image: Indymedia.org. New York City expects protests at next week's Republican National Convention to be the most widespread and strident to hit any political convention since Chicago in 1968, when the Democrats nominated Hubert H. Humphrey over Eugene McCarthy at the height of Vietnam furor, and chaos stole the political spotlight. Already GOP spinners have begun fra ...
Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, grassroots activism, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Dismission: Impossible New U.S. Government Report Acknowledges Human-Caused Climate Change		26 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Dismission: Impossible New U.S. Government Report Acknowledges Human-Caused Climate Change President Bush famously dismissed a 2002 U.S. government report that acknowledged the human causes of climate change as something "put out by the bureaucracy." Well, it looks like the bureaucracy's at it again: A new administration report to Congress indicates that human production of heat-trapping greenhouse gases is likely behind the r ...
Topics: climate, politics (all these topics)

Circuit Boards Roasting on an Open Fire Dumped Electronics Poisoning Poor in Asia		25 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Circuit Boards Roasting on an Open Fire Dumped Electronics Poisoning Poor in Asia Computers and other electronics discarded in the West frequently end up in poor villages in China and India, where they are stripped for residues of valuable metals in primitive procedures that poison local communities. Enviro activists report that Chinese villagers cook circuit boards over open charcoal burners to s ...
Topics: environmental justice, green living, politics, recycling (all these topics)

Whining Is Job One Ford Battles Hybrid-Friendly Legislation, Destroys Electric Cars		24 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Whining Is Job One Ford Battles Hybrid-Friendly Legislation, Destroys Electric Cars Ford Motor Co. CEO Bill Ford's vocal attempts to position his company as eco-friendly are sounding a little hollow this week. As the California legislative session nears its end, Ford has ramped up lobbying efforts to kill a bill that would allow d ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, California, cars, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, hybrids, jackassery, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Behind the Green Door-to-Door Enviro Groups Go Door-to-Door to Reach Swing Voters		23 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Behind the Green Door-to-Door Enviro Groups Go Door-to-Door to Reach Swing Voters Environmental organizations like the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters are mounting get-out-the-vote operations of unprecedented vigor and sophistication this election year. They are targeting what the Sierra Club calls "infrequent environmental voters," folks concerned about natural resources and environmental de ...
Topics: elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

Good for the Goose, Good for the Pander Kerry Trumpets the Benefits of Coal		23 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Good for the Goose, Good for the Pander Kerry Trumpets the Benefits of Coal In 2000, Al Gore narrowly lost the swing state of West Virginia, which (like so many other things) cost him the election. Many observers speculated that the loss resulted from Gore's reputation as a "radical" environmentalist, particularly his opposition to coal, which many state residents depend on for their livelihoods. Joh ...
Topics: elections, energy, politics, United States (all these topics)

Tree Amigos Bush Roadless-Rule Rollback Opposed by Tree Farmers		20 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Tree Amigos Bush Roadless-Rule Rollback Opposed by Tree Farmers The Bush administration's proposal to revamp (critics say gut) the Clinton-Era Roadless Rule, which prohibits road construction on some 60 Million acres of federal forestland, is finding opposition in some odd places. Owners of tree farms, not typically considered a natural ally of greens, are backing the Sierra Club and other enviro ...
Topics: food and agriculture, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Errorism New Report Charges Bush Administration with Neglecting 9/11 Air Safety		19 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Errorism New Report Charges Bush Administration with Neglecting 9/11 Air Safety The Bush administration showed "reckless disregard" for public safety after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by failing to warn New Yorkers about the dangers of breathing the polluted air around the Twin Towers site, says a new Sierra Club report. According to the report: The Bush administration failed to warn the public abou ...
Topics: air pollution, New York, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

If at First You Don't Succeed, Go Negative Bush campaign tries to trash Kerry's environmental record	Amanda Griscom	19 Aug 2004	Muckraker
The wrestler in chief. Photo: White House. Over the past few weeks of Presidential WrestleMania MMIV, the Bush campaign has fired off more than a dozen press releases about John Kerry's policies on energy, nuclear-waste storage, forest and water protections, and other environmental issues -- a hodgepodge of smears, exaggerations, and obfuscations intended to besmirch ...
Topics: elections, George Bush, messaging, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Terry Firma An interview with Terry Tamminen, Schwarzenegger's top enviro official	Mark Hertsgaard	19 Aug 2004	Main Dish
Terry Tamminen. Terry Tamminen, secretary of California's Environmental Protection Agency, may hold the most powerful environmental job in the U.S. outside of Washington, D.C. Not only is California the world's fifth-largest economy, it has long been an environmental trendsetter, pioneering standards in automobile regulation and alternative-energy development that have spread across ...
Topics: California, interview, politics, Terry Tamminen (all these topics)

Grand Old Protest Activists Divided Over Protest Tactics at GOP Convention		18 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Grand Old Protest Activists Divided Over Protest Tactics at GOP Convention Many enviros will be among the hundreds of thousands of protesters flooding into New York City at the end of the month to protest the Republican National Convention -- or rather, to protest environmental rollbacks, corporate cronyism, tax cuts for the rich, indifference to poverty, abortion restrictions, the Iraq war, abrogation of civil liberties ...
Topics: elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

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